Monday, September 19, 2011

More progress, I'm afraid. I've incorporated the test program announced in the last post into the formatter tool. This is intended as a practical replacement for XSLT. So now I can convert real texts plus overlapping standoff properties into valid HTML. If the properties are derived from XML documents there won't be any overlap initially. What formatter does is loosen up that particular restriction. So in the GUI it will be possible to change properties or add new ones that overlap. And it will still format correctly. I'll be putting some test cases onto the testbed at Loyola soon.

About Me

I have a BA (1980) in Classical Greek language and Ancient History, a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK in Classical Greek papyrology. I have recently been awarded a second PhD in the ITEE School at UQ for my thesis on 'Multiple Versions and Overlap in Digital Text'. From 1989 until 2005 I worked for the Cambridge Wittgenstein Archive making an edition of Wittgenstein. I spent three years as a Computer Associate running the IT support group at the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridge. I have also spent three years developing a commercial license managment system for Mac OSX. I then worked for three years on the Leximancer text mining application (www.leximancer.com) which strives to extract meaning from natural text. I currently work at the Queensland University of Technology Information Security Institute. Since 2002 I have worked with Digital Variants, since 2010 with the HRIT group at the University of Loyola, Chicago, and since 2012 on the AustESE project at the University of Queensland.